Friday Weigh-in Thread - - 10/11/24
whathapnd
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Hey Friday Weighers!
How'd you do?
How'd you do?
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I forgot.
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Up 1.0 pound. I felt bulletproof after a good WI last week and didn't stick to the plan. Several fudge cookies were part of the problem.1
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I'm on week #4:of my no weighing-in experiment. I have to admit that I'm now curious about what the scale would say. The main reason is that I don't "feel" like I've lost weight despite diligently tracking. On that topic, I had a rude awakening this week. I was traveling and ate at the same restaurant twice. I'd eaten there a month ago, so my standard order was already in my MFP tracker. It's a breakfast order from a chain, and I'd even tracked components separately to compare to the "meal" listed in the tracker - - all had green check marks. A couple days ago, I dug a little further and discovered the MFP entries I used were likely each off by about 400 calories. It was too late to try to claw back some of those calories for the week. But lesson learned. Tracker has been updated with correct values.
I'm going to try to pop into a WW Studio tomorrow and do a weigh-in but not learn the weight. I think I'll want a four-week data point when this is over. I'm tempted to confirm with the WW staff member whether I'm down at least 1.5 pounds. We'll see.
As I said above, despite consistently being in what should be a calorie deficit, I don't "feel" like I've lost weight. I took measurements a couple weeks ago to have as a reference in another six-eight weeks. I still think I've made the right choice by doing this. It has certainly kept me focused on tracking.
If you read this far, thanks and have a great weekend!2 -
If you read this far, thanks and have a great weekend!
I made it all the way
Question - are you in loss mode or maintenance? I ask because it sounds like you are trying to lose, but to me your experiment seems to me to be more of something to try while in maintenance. Either way, I hope it goes well for you. I look forward to hearing your results.
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Well, I’m not necessarily enthused with my weight, but I’m enthused with my behavior over the past week. That’s probably more important.
My weekly Thursday evening studio weigh-ins over the prior three weeks went from Green to Red to higher Red as of last week. Over the same period, my weekly points at end of week went from -25 to -141 to -80. This week, my Thursday studio result put me down a notch to Yellow and my weekly point status through this morning is 67 points positive. I’ve made choices that deliberately kept me from exceeding my daily points, even with two nights of meals out and a poker game with friends. I’ve even taken the radical approach of leaving points unused if I wasn’t explicitly hungry!
I will confess that I’m not crazy about all my choices. Some were based on zero point foods just because they were zero points, but that doesn’t mean that those meals were fewer calories. Nonetheless, I did successfully conform my behavior to the accepted norms of the WW program and avoided uncontrolled eating. The results are good, but the behaviors - and most significantly, the ability and willingness to be disciplined in those behaviors - are what matters.0 -
We'll see.
I’ll confess to being highly curious about how this saga will unfold. I have a strong history of being able to con myself into believing anything that I need or want to believe, so I need those outside metrics like a scale. Like you, though, right now I’m more focused on my behaviors than I am the results.0 -
@crewahl Yep, I'm definitely in loss mode, Charlie. I started this experiment because I felt I was letting the scale mess with my head too much, and the result of that was that my eating/dieting behaviors were inconsistent. So in an effort to truly focus on/isolate my behaviors, the questions I asked myself were:
1) What would happen if I just made a diligent effort to stick to a calorie deficit and accurately track for an extended period and didn't solicit any feedback from the scale?
2) How much weight would I lose if I consistently ate in a REASONABLE deficit.
3) Do I trust myself to accurately track in a timely manner?
The analogy I'll make is that I'd come to view the scale as an annoying and fickle supervisor whose feedback on my weekly work was rarely reflective of the effort I was putting in. When I tried harder to please the supervisor, my work habits frequently suffered, I was stressed and I disliked the job. So instead of quitting, I decided to fire the supervisor for awhile to see what kind of results I'd get without it. I'm confident I've been consistently in a calorie deficit, and I haven't been a bit stressed about my "work." Even the under-recording of the meal I mentioned in my earlier post didn't stress me out like it would have if I'd had to weigh in today. I was like, "Dang it. That was kind of a rookie move." Because what really matters for my weight loss is that I'm so in tune with trying to accurately track that I did discovered that mistake. Diligent and accurate tracking (at a deficit) is my focus right now.
I didn't set a weight goal when I started the experiment, and I've gone back and forth on whether I should have an expectation. Twelve weeks is not that long in the scheme of things. And given that my weight loss has stalled since July, losing one pound a month would be an improvement. But since I'm committed to tracking, I suspect (not expect) it will be more. But who knows? I haven't previously allowed myself to eat as much as I'm currently eating when I'm in loss mode. That slight increase in calories is really helping me not feel stressed.
I know this was long. Thanks for listening. 😀0 -
One last thing. This experiment is also about trying to develop some consistent and good habits in how/what I eat.0
